News Round Up: 4.3.2, Darkmoon Faire, and D3DB

Due to yesterday's downtime, we were a little slow on announcing our contest winners and getting the new PTR information out. However, we should make that up with some exciting news today that has to do with Sanctuary!

Diablo III

I have some awesome news that I've been holding in for a few weeks: D3DB has joined the ZAM Network! These guys were heavily inspired by Wowhead when they launched their database years ago and have become the best Diablo III resource around, so it's great to see it come full circle and get to team up with them in an official capacity. We'll be working closely with them as they are a fellow Blizzard fansite. (And it's Diablo III, I mean, do you know how awesome that is?)

A hotfix was deployed last night in order to solve the issue and the monthly quests should now be available again. However, if your character had already encountered a bug with some of the monthly quests, then you will need to wait until the next Darkmoon Faire starting on February 5 in order to complete those quests and the related achievements.

Once again we apologise for any inconvenience this issue may have caused.

4.3.2 PTR

The PTR hit and we have the spell differences plus the new model for the Feldrake, a mount that was included. No other items were, so it's a fairly minor patch; the biggest were a lot of nerfs to Dragon Soul encounters, as well as significant changes for some classes.

Achievements

Classes

: When you critically hit with your Multi-Shot your next Multi-Shot's focus cost will beMulti-Shot, the focus cost of Multi-Shot is reduced by 25% for 5 sec.

Ураганный обстрел: When you critically hit with your Multi-Shot your next Multi-Shot's focus cost will beMulti-Shot, the focus cost of Multi-Shot is reduced by 50% for 5 sec.

: You have a 50% chance when you trap a target with Freezing Trap or Ice Trap to cause your next 2 Arcane Shot or Explosive Shot abilitiesExplosive Shots to cost no Focus and trigger no cooldown. Effect lasts for 12 sec.

: You have a 100% chance when you trap a target with Freezing Trap or Ice Trap to cause your next 2 Arcane Shot or Explosive Shot abilitiesExplosive Shots to cost no focus and trigger no cooldown. Effect lasts for 12 sec.

: Grabs nearby enemies, inflicting 5687 to 73122625 to 3375 Fire damage and sticking them to Deathwing's back, reducing their move speed by 35%. While stuck, enemies cannot be flung off Deathwing's back.

Ледяная волна: Deals 190000 to 210000 Frost damage to all enemies within 63 yards and increases their Frost damage taken by 50% for 2 sec.

Пытка разума: Inflicts Shadow damage to an enemy and reduces its movement speed for 3 sec.

Пытка разума: Inflicts Shadow damage to an enemy and reduces its movement speed for 3 sec.

Ядерный взрыв: The superheated nucleus of the Amalgamation triggers a massive explosion, inflicting 350625 to 399375 Fire damage to targets within 108 yds. This blast is powerful enough to pry up one of Deathwing's Elementium plates if it is within range.

: Targets in a cone in front of the caster take 33425 to 36575 Shadow damage and an additional 74000 to 8600055500 to 64500 Fire damage over 8 sec.6 sec.

: Targets in a cone in front of the caster take 33425 to 36575 Shadow damage and an additional 55500 to 6450041625 to 48375 Shadow damage over 8 sec.6 sec.

: Deals 300000280000 Shadow damage to players within 5 yards of the point of impact and increases their Shadow damage taken by 50% for 15 sec, stacking. If no players are struck, the Skyfire instead suffers the full brunt.

: Deals 300000280000 Shadow damage to players within 5 yards of the point of impact and increases their Shadow damage taken by 50% for 6 sec, stacking. If no players are struck, the Skyfire instead suffers the full brunt.

Молния Скверны: Strikes an enemy with a blast of lightning that inflicts 13875 to 161259250 to 10750 Fire damage. The bolt will arc to additional nearby enemies, inflicting 50% more Fire damage to each successive target.

: You have a chance when you trap a target with Freezing Trap or Ice Trap to cause your next 2 Arcane Shot or Explosive Shot abilitiesExplosive Shots to cost no Focus and trigger no cooldown. Effect lasts for 12 sec.

Массовое рассеивание: Dispels magic in a 15 yard radius, removing 1 harmful spells from each friendly target and 1 beneficial spells from each enemy target. Affects a maximum of 100 friendly targets and 100 enemy targets. This dispel is potent enough to remove Magic effects that are normally undispellable.

Массовое рассеивание: Dispels magic in a 15 yard radius, removing 1 harmful spells from each friendly target and 1 beneficial spells from each enemy target. Affects a maximum of 100 friendly targets and 100 enemy targets. This dispel is potent enough to remove Magic effects that are normally undispellable.

Массовое рассеивание: Dispels magic in a 15 yard radius, removing 1 harmful spells from each friendly target and 1 beneficial spells from each enemy target. Affects a maximum of 100 friendly targets and 100 enemy targets. This dispel is potent enough to remove Magic effects that are normally undispellable.

: The Eye of Go'rath casts its Shadowy Gaze at a random player, inflicting 25900 to 30100 Shadow damage.23310 to 27090 Shadow damage.

Темное пламя: Targets in a cone in front of the caster take 33425 to 36575 Shadow damage and an additional 74000 to 8600055500 to 64500 Shadow damage over 8 sec.6 sec.

Темное пламя: Targets in a cone in front of the caster take 33425 to 36575 Shadow damage and an additional 74000 to 8600055500 to 64500 Fire damage over 8 sec.6 sec.

Тени Хаккара: Strikes an enemy with Shadow energy that jumps to another nearby enemy, inflicting 146250 to 15375097500 to 102500 Shadow damage. The spell affects up to 10 targets.

Камень души: Creates a Soulstone. When cast on live targets, the soul of the target is stored and they will be able to resurrect upon death. If cast on a dead target, they are instantly resurrected. Targets ressurect with 30% health and 30% mana.

Комментарий от Merton

Комментарий от CrimsonTemplar

Looks more like 0 yards from the way the strikethru text is formatted. I'm reading it as the closest 5 enemies rather than those within a set distance of the caster.

Комментарий от Adamsm

on 2012-01-04T14:02:13-06:00

Well that kind of sucks for the Artifacts....guess I'll just sell those two I was holding onto then.

Комментарий от Soldrethar

on 2012-01-04T14:46:10-06:00

Well that kind of sucks for the Artifacts....guess I'll just sell those two I was holding onto then.

Ya.....at least I'll still be able to get the mount this week, but I would've gotten it two days sooner if it weren't for this : /

Комментарий от Meilinn

on 2012-01-04T14:46:57-06:00

What does it means 0 yards? melee distance or not distance at all? Thanks

Комментарий от Rankkor

on 2012-01-04T15:18:12-06:00

Well that kind of sucks for the Artifacts....guess I'll just sell those two I was holding onto then.

what artifacts?

Комментарий от DoctorLock

on 2012-01-04T15:19:16-06:00

Pretty much need the Fel Drake for my Warlock

Комментарий от Adamsm

on 2012-01-04T15:35:45-06:00

Well that kind of sucks for the Artifacts....guess I'll just sell those two I was holding onto then.

what artifacts?

Two of the PVP ones.

Комментарий от deathbyte

on 2012-01-04T16:34:57-06:00

Congrats to Whaddafack you are the only one of the names I actually have seen post other then contests.

Комментарий от pnkflffytutu

on 2012-01-04T16:44:52-06:00

Congrats to Whaddafack you are the only one of the names I actually have seen post other then contests.

One of the names I remember like f0shizzle...

Комментарий от Blackboy0

on 2012-01-04T17:49:32-06:00

No announcement about the fact that this patch has a "Game Client Optimizer" that is run when you run the Launcher (That supposedly Blizzard will use to clean up the game files to make the game less... Massive) and that a 64bit Client is in the works? (Current PTR test build is 4.3.2 (15148) (Test x86)).

Комментарий от mjswdr

on 2012-01-04T17:49:33-06:00

So apparently Mass Dispel will do...nothing.

Комментарий от Lolus

on 2012-01-04T18:03:16-06:00

Thanks for the useless DMF fix, oh wait, thy didn't fix anything and Pit Fighter trinket is still bugged since day ONE. If you sell the artifacts the buyer won't be able to use it either btw

Комментарий от Interest

on 2012-01-04T18:27:08-06:00

A hotfix was deployed last night in order to solve the issue and the monthly quests should now be available again. However, if your character had already encountered a bug with some of the monthly quests, then you will need to wait until the next Darkmoon Faire starting on February 5 in order to complete those quests and the related achievements.

Once again we apologise for any inconvenience this issue may have caused.

Balls. Oh well, it's better than it not getting fixed...

Also, any chance of addressing the ridiculous drop chance on all the PvE rare quest items?

Thanks for the useless DMF fix, oh, and btw, Pit Fighter trinket is still bugged since day ONE. LOL at mass dispel as well

The zero values are essentially the values being nulled out for some sort of testing. I can guarantee it's just a tooltip modification for some sort of reason that will be resolved when the patch rolls out.

Lock and Load: You have a 100% chance when you trap a target with Freezing Trap or Ice Trap to cause your next 2 Explosive Shots to cost no focus and trigger no cooldown. Effect lasts for 12 sec.

I look forward to this.

Комментарий от Blackboy0

on 2012-01-04T20:13:45-06:00

So apparently Mass Dispel will do...nothing.

It's a PTR test build, they are obviously testing out something with Mass Dispel, probably to make it affect the closest 10, rather than 10 in an area, which would be a nice buff to the skill. Just stop QQing and let Blizzard test out some new mechanics, if it doesn't work they'll revert it back to how it was before and nothing will change.

Комментарий от baradiel

on 2012-01-04T21:23:32-06:00

Lol nerfing DS, Cool! now its moar easy!

Комментарий от SecMem

on 2012-01-04T22:54:26-06:00

hmm balance 4set buff but is it enough to be worth taking hmmmand lol ad hpal 4set nerf was fun while it lasted.